Iranian Foreign Minister: No Contacts with Trump Transition Team

The Algemeiner reports: There has been no communication between Iran and US President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team, the Islamic Republic’s foreign minister said on Tuesday, the Tehran regime-aligned Tasnim news agency reported.

“We have not made any contacts with the new US administration as of yet,” Mohammad Javad Zarif (pictured) was quoted as telling the Arabic-language Al Mayadeen television station in an interview from Davos, Switzerland — where he is attending the 2017 World Economic Forum.

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The fate of the July 2015 nuclear deal reached by Iran and six world powers after Trump takes office on Friday remains unclear.